Just be a mother!

Ryley 2022-04-21 09:02:14

On Mother's Day, I happened to watch a movie "Return" about maternal love, directed by Almodovar, starring Penélope Cruz, and old partner. I love this movie more than Pain and Glory.

Raymond lived with her daughter and her alcoholic husband, but one day the alcoholic husband was about to sexually assault her daughter. As a result, she was stabbed to death with a knife by her daughter! Raymonde hugged her daughter tightly after knowing it, and took all the responsibilities. Then he put his alcoholic husband in the refrigerator in the store that he was taking care of for the neighbors. After a while, he and his friends buried the husband together with the refrigerator by the river.

When Raymonde's sister Thor returned home to attend Aunt Paula's funeral, she saw her mother burned to death with her father. Her mother hid in Sol's trunk and went home with Sol. Sol always thought that This is the appearance of my mother, and it was not until one day that Raymond met her mother that she knew that her mother was not dead. Raimonde was raped by her father and became pregnant when she was a child, Raimonde hated her mother for never knowing and started to move to Madrid to stay away from her mother, but her mother didn't know all about it and blamed Raimonde in front of Aunt Paula, then Paula My aunt told my mother the truth. My mother was very angry, so she planned to goug out my father's eyeballs, but I happened to see my father, who was sleeping with the neighbors, and set fire to two people. Mom has always felt guilty about Raymonde and wanted to ask Raymonde's forgiveness!

There are so many details to this movie, but this part really blows my mind! I really think that maternal love is not for everyone. In addition to gentle love, maternal love also has the animal nature of protecting children. Sometimes when I see social news, my daughter is killed by her husband, and my mother knows how to cry. There are also children who are oppressed by their husbands, and the mother will only say: "Anyway, he is your father, and you have to listen to him." This kind of weak mother is really not suitable for having children. Don't touch yourself, feel that you love the child very much, and then when the child needs to be protected, she will do nothing but cry!

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  • Irene: Don't say that, Raimunda, or I'll start crying. And ghosts don't cry.

  • Sole: Mom?

    Irene: Hum?

    Sole: There's something you want me to do, isn't?

    Irene: Cut my hair.

    Sole: I mean if there's something you couldn't do alive and doesn't let you rest.

    Irene: There are always things undone. Or bad done. And my life has been no exception. Look, I don't know if I can fix them, but if I can, it's up to me to do it.

    Sole: [after a long silence] Customers will arrive soon. What are we going to do?

    Irene: We attend to them. I'll help you.

    Sole: But I can't introduce you as my mother. They all know I'm an orphan.

    Irene: Then I'll pretend to be foreign.

    Sole: Foreign? Where from?

    Irene: ¿Dominican?

    Sole: No. There are lots of them on the neighborhood and they would notice the accent.

    Irene: ¿Chinese? Madrid is full of Chinese people.

    Sole: Who's going to believe that you're from China, mom?

    [Thinks]

    Sole: Something strange. Not very common around here... Rusian.

    Irene: Do wou really think I look more Rusian than Chinese?

    Sole: Yes. Rusian women are just like us, mom. Look, whatever you hear, keep your mouth shut. And it can't looked in your face that you understand us.